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Monday, December 12, 2011

Yielding to God

On Friday, December 9, while pondering a reading on Advent by Philip Britts with the above title, and the subtitle of “Submit, Surrender, Obey,” I was struck by the following few sentences and reminded me of the humility and surrender to God’s will with which we must approach any endeavor:

"When we experience [God’s] love we turn away from the notion that we initiate and God responds; that we, by our religious efforts, can set something in motion that God must obey in response. To believe that by an effort of will we can mount nearer to God or add one cubit to our stature is as unchristian as the belief that we have no task as Christians for the mundane affairs of this world. Both beliefs have the same root - the pride that seeks to climb its way to God - and produces the same kind of confusion as the ancient attempt to build
the tower of Babel. The direction to which our wills must be put is in obedience to God's will in response to the breaking in of the Spirit."

I found Britts’ full article reprinted at
http://www.holytrinitynewrochelle.org/yourti92883.html

Ben
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